{"id":2685,"date":"2026-04-27T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T08:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=2685"},"modified":"2026-04-27T11:03:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T08:03:00","slug":"androulakis-tsipras-days-off-and-the-toxicity-of-populism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=2685","title":{"rendered":"Androulakis, Tsipras&#8217;&#8230; days off and the toxicity of populism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <b>Nikos Androulakis<\/b> is acting as if he&#8217;s covering for Alexis Tsipras<\/b>&#8216;s&#8230; days off<b>toxicity<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p>Another speech by <b>Nikos Androulakis<\/b>, this time in the context of the process of <b>electing<\/b> a new <b>secretary<\/b> of the party &#8211; which has gone through a thousand waves &#8211; and the members of the <b>Political Council<\/b>, followed the same pattern. Attacks, personal references to the prime minister and <b>toxicity<\/b>combined with <b>popularism<\/b> that boils down to the <b>&#8220;money is there&#8221;<\/b> logic.<\/p>\n<p>In <b>PASOK <\/b>the leadership team has come up with tactics reminiscent of <b>Alexis Tsipras<\/b> and is doing everything it can to express itself with toxicity and populism, covering his&#8230; <b>requirements<\/b>, until he returns to the central political scene with the creation of a new party composed of the members of <b>Syriza <\/b>who are waiting at the exit door.<\/p>\n<p>The <b>PASOK<\/b> president&#8217;s speech included what he has been saying all this time without changing <b>the party<\/b>. What&#8217;s worse is that he is also repeating what has been contradicted, showing that the central political line is &#8220;say, say, something will remain&#8221;, as he did on Sunday with the &#8220;deal&#8221; <b>Maximou <\/b>and <b>N.D. MPs.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Reality doesn&#8217;t make sense, but a good -as they perceive it in <b>Harilaou Trikoupis<\/b>&#8211; slogan and a line for the social media or a headline in the <b>media<\/b> moving along the line of &#8220;let <b>Mitsotakis<\/b> go&#8221; without even bothering to include &#8220;and we&#8217;ll see&#8221; anymore, since citizens understand that in such a version the aftermath is dramatically reminiscent of periods like that of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The <b>PASOK<\/b> has become a <b>protest party<\/b>. It seeks the negative vote of the citizens by essentially selling a supposed catharsis through the criminalization of political life, as <b>Alexis Tsipras practically did. <\/b>He is seeking votes in a pool of voters who declare themselves antisystemic, something that is expected to be done -already done by his interventions- by the former prime minister, former president and former <b>MEP<\/b> of SYRIZA.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s speech by <b>Nikos Androulakis<\/b>, in which he declared the start of his party&#8217;s <b>primary race<\/b>, only confirms that <b>toxicity<\/b> and populism will be the main characteristics that will dominate throughout the coming period as the battle for the second of the <b>elections<\/b> is expected to be fierce&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikos Androulakis acts as if he is covering Alexis Tsipras&#8217;&#8230; days off in toxicity.<br \/>\nAnother speech by Nikos Androulakis, this time at the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}